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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Vamps on 10 February 2012, 22:15:10
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The written word can not truly reflect the situation.....
Two lady colleagues had to travel to Huddersfield today, so a car was hired, apparently they had asked for a diesel car.
Mid afternoon we got a call into the office from one of them, they had pulled into a garage to fuel up..(LD Calm down ::)) clerk took the call and mad an announcement, G has phone, they asked for a diesel car went to fill up and on opening the fill saw a sticker saying 'unleaded' so what fuel should they put it?
Remember I am the only male in the office, advice given was, person a) I will ring the hire company to ask Person b) what does it smell like? The best bit, the hire company did not know!!!!!! I commented that I could not believe they had driven to Huddersfield and back without knowing if they were driving a diesel or petrol, and suggested the instruction on the filler should be an indicator........how the heck should we know........one of these is a bit of a farmer and seems so sensible, the other is a bit girly....
OK The sticker should be right but in the interest of safety I stepped in and told them to ask someone at the garage....and went off to bang my head on the wall.....
No wonder by this time next year LD will be a millionaire..... :D :D :D
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tbh, its not easy. you have diesel, super diesel, unleaded and super unleaded. now i know what goes in my various vehicles accept at 6 in the morning. pulled into a texaco garage at 9 on the evening and i still managed to pick up the wrong pump due to the poor layout of the nozzles. the only tell tail was that the nozzle would not physically fit. :-[
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Start it up. Does it sound like a tractor and bathe the forecourt in smoke?
Have you driven all that way wondering why the rev limiter is set too low and the brakes appear to be binding? :D
Not too hard... ;)
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Can't understand why the companies don't simply put a small 'Petrol' or 'Diesel' sticker on the dash for the driver to know. And if the rental company doesn't know, do they bother with servicing them at all then ::)
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Can't understand why the companies don't simply put a small 'Petrol' or 'Diesel' sticker on the dash for the driver to know. And if the rental company doesn't know, do they bother with servicing them at all then ::)
I couldn't get over that ::) ::) ::) I suspect an unhelpful receptionist as it is a National company.... :-\ :-\ :-\
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Can't understand why the companies don't simply put a small 'Petrol' or 'Diesel' sticker on the dash for the driver to know.
They put the sticker on the filler cap instead.
And if the rental company doesn't know, do they bother with servicing them at all then ::)
Why does the receptionists need to know details of a particular car? They just hand out the keys.
As Kevin says, if you can't tell a diseasal from a petrol car by the sound of it .................. ::) ::)
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Can't understand why the companies don't simply put a small 'Petrol' or 'Diesel' sticker on the dash for the driver to know.
They put the sticker on the filler cap instead.
And if the rental company doesn't know, do they bother with servicing them at all then ::)
Why does the receptionists need to know details of a particular car? They just hand out the keys.
As Kevin says, if you can't tell a diseasal from a petrol car by the sound of it .................. ::) ::)
Well that was my thought..... ::) ::) ::) A bit of ribbing next week I suspect....... :D :D
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Like I said do they service them and could that 'diesel' noise be the camshafts giving way as there is no oil in the engine. :P ;D
Receptionist should be able to get the car details on her PC screen as well, as bound to be someone wanting to rent either only a petrol or diesel ??? . Mind you she probably thinks the 'Green or Black' tag for the fuel is what finger nail polish should be used when driving a particular fuel of car! ::)
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do you remember the toy you had when you was two or three?. probably not.
the job was to hammer the square peg into the square holes and the round pegs into the round holes...
yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
any question on the next shuttle launch will be answered .. soon.
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yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
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It will! ::) ::) ::) ::)
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yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
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It will! ::) ::) ::) ::)
I think that was tidla's point ;)
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yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
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It will! ::) ::) ::) ::)
:D :D :D
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yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
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It will! ::) ::) ::) ::)
I think that was tidla's point ;)
I know ;) ............... I was agreeing! ::) ::) ::) ::)
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yet a unleaded nozzle will still fit in a diesel tank filler tube.
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It will! ::) ::) ::) ::)
I think that was tidla's point ;)
I know ;) ............... I was agreeing! ::) ::) ::) ::)
Ohh.. then why were you rolling your eyes at him :P ;D
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Still I'm sure the girls know when it is time to fit new tyres to their car.................
They deflate where they have gone through the canvas. :o :o :o :o
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LD wants to know if their planning any trips to Suffolk? Apparently it is good for business. ::) ::) ::)
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LD wants to know if their planning any trips to Suffolk? Apparently it is good for business. ::) ::) ::)
:y :y :y
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LD wants to know if their planning any trips to Suffolk? Apparently it is good for business. ::) ::) ::)
Yep :y :y :y
In answer to the square/round nozzle point. I think it's a great idea (even though it would put me out of business overnight) but just think it through a little.
Every pump and vehicle in the country would have to have the nozzle/filler neck changed as appropriate. That would be both hugely expensive and near on impossible ;) They have already changed the nozzles when Diesel became a popular consumer fuel... They mad the petrol one smaller ;)
Frankly, this situation aside as it is just pure stupidity (can they walk and talk at the same time? ???) ::), almost every case of misfuelling I attend is down to lack of attention or distraction. It's much easier to do than people think, just a momentary lapse in concentration and it's done. As an addition, some research done recently into the process of refuelling found that it is something that 99% of drivers do subconsciously, i.e. without thinking about it ;)
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In answer to the square/round nozzle point. I think it's a great idea (even though it would put me out of business overnight) but just think it through a little.
Every pump and vehicle in the country would have to have the nozzle/filler neck changed as appropriate. That would be both hugely expensive and near on impossible ;) They have already changed the nozzles when Diesel became a popular consumer fuel... They mad the petrol one smaller ;)
Frankly, this situation aside as it is just pure stupidity (can they walk and talk at the same time? ???) ::), almost every case of misfuelling I attend is down to lack of attention or distraction. It's much easier to do than people think, just a momentary lapse in concentration and it's done. As an addition, some research done recently into the process of refuelling found that it is something that 99% of drivers do subconsciously, i.e. without thinking about it ;)
That is entirely my experience too. You could put warning stickers all over the instruments, door handles, filler flap, filler cap, in the back window and one on the roof just for good measure, yet people would still put the wrong fuel in. It is simply because they are not paying attention to what they are doing. Most of the idiots that do this, and we see several a week on average, drive the same way.
We had one bloke working for us who managed to misfuel a recovery truck.
One of the window fitters where I used to work managed it 3 times in 2 months, until I trained him against it by charging him the full cost of the third time. By the time we had a recovery to base, another to the mechanic, his draining the fuel, getting it running again, a full tank of diesel to be sure and 2 days replacement vehicle hire it came to £700. When complained to the boss I went with him. On being told that it was the third time in 2 months, Con turned to him and asked if he wanted to pay for the other 2 times. He was a good man to work for!
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LD wants to know if their planning any trips to Suffolk? Apparently it is good for business. ::) ::) ::)
Yep :y :y :y
In answer to the square/round nozzle point. I think it's a great idea (even though it would put me out of business overnight) but just think it through a little.
Every pump and vehicle in the country would have to have the nozzle/filler neck changed as appropriate. That would be both hugely expensive and near on impossible ;) They have already changed the nozzles when Diesel became a popular consumer fuel... They mad the petrol one smaller ;)
Frankly, this situation aside as it is just pure stupidity (can they walk and talk at the same time? ???) ::), almost every case of misfuelling I attend is down to lack of attention or distraction. It's much easier to do than people think, just a momentary lapse in concentration and it's done. As an addition, some research done recently into the process of refuelling found that it is something that 99% of drivers do subconsciously, i.e. without thinking about it ;)
Actually, I think they changed the size well before that and for a different reason. The smaller nozzle was introduced with unleaded fuel to stop people putting leaded fuel into cars that should only have unleaded (i.e. with catalytic converters). It was around the mid-eighties or so.
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The written word can not truly reflect the situation.....
Two lady colleagues had to travel to Huddersfield today, so a car was hired, apparently they had asked for a diesel car.
Mid afternoon we got a call into the office from one of them, they had pulled into a garage to fuel up..(LD Calm down ::)) clerk took the call and mad an announcement, G has phone, they asked for a diesel car went to fill up and on opening the fill saw a sticker saying 'unleaded' so what fuel should they put it?
Remember I am the only male in the office, advice given was, person a) I will ring the hire company to ask Person b) what does it smell like? The best bit, the hire company did not know!!!!!! I commented that I could not believe they had driven to Huddersfield and back without knowing if they were driving a diesel or petrol, and suggested the instruction on the filler should be an indicator........how the heck should we know........one of these is a bit of a farmer and seems so sensible, the other is a bit girly....
OK The sticker should be right but in the interest of safety I stepped in and told them to ask someone at the garage....and went off to bang my head on the wall.....
No wonder by this time next year LD will be a millionaire..... :D :D :D
gods country :-* :y